Charles Bukowski has been called one of the most original voices in modern American literature. Bukowski lived in Los Angeles and wrote about the city's ordinary people and its underside - its ...

The Charles Bukowski centennial occurred during a year when we’ve all gotten a chance to really clean our houses. It’s appropriate to the times that Italian critic Silvia Bizio of La Repubblica found ...

Charles Bukowski, the legendary gutter-rat-of-Los-Angeles author and poet, had such a pungent public image — the raw-meat face, like a bulldog’s mug sculpted out of hamburger; the fights and ...

It’s not uncommon for tourists, some from other countries, to wind up in San Pedro “searching for Bukowski,” as it were. That would be Charles Bukowski, the hard-drinking, underground poet who became ...

Some of what Charles Bukowski wrote is resonant enough to still be enjoyable today, and some of it is not. In one part of Bukowski’s novel “Ham on Rye,” the main character’s father beats his son with ...

It’s been two decades since Charles Bukowski — the legendary poet and writer celebrated for his gritty, booze-fueled style of prose — died at 73 in San Pedro. To commemorate what would have been his ...

David L. Ulin is books editor of The Times. Charles BUKOWSKI may be a Los Angeles icon, but reading “The Pleasures of the Damned” -- the new volume of his selected poetry edited by John Martin, his ...

The Huntington Library is wrapping up a colorful exhibit about the late L.A. writer Charles Bukowski. The library is the permanent home of his manuscripts and artwork. Bukowski’s San Pedro home may ...

Poet and author Charles Bukowski is gone but the bungalow where he penned his first novel still stands, as bedraggled as the writer himself, and city leaders say they will save it as a literary ...

A documentary curio carved out of interview footage from 1981 presents the gutter-rat-of-Los-Angeles author and poet, high on red wine and his own words. Charles Bukowski, the legendary ...